Model reference · open weights
resmasknet is an open-weight embedding model from py-feat. resmasknet (BF16) weighs 552 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
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Summary of the py-feat/resmasknet model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | py-feat |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-07-26 |
| VRAM | 552 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Runs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
resmasknet combines residual masking with unet architecture to predict 7 facial emotion categories from images.
If you use the svm_au model in your research or application, please cite the following paper:
Pham Luan, The Huynh Vu, and Tuan Anh Tran. "Facial Expression Recognition using Residual Masking Network". In: Proc. ICPR. 2020.
@inproceedings{pham2021facial,
title={Facial expression recognition using residual masking network},
author={Pham, Luan and Vu, The Huynh and Tran, Tuan Anh},
booktitle={2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)},
pages={4513--4519},
year={2021},
organization={IEEE}
}
We thank Luan Pham for generously sharing this model with a permissive license.
import numpy as np
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from feat.emo_detectors.ResMaskNet.resmasknet_test import ResMasking
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
# Load Configs
emotion_config_file = hf_hub_download(repo_id= "py-feat/resmasknet", filename="config.json", cache_dir=get_resource_path())
with open(emotion_config_file, "r") as f:
emotion_config = json.load(f)
device = 'cpu'
emotion_detector = ResMasking("", in_channels=emotion_config['in_channels'])
emotion_detector.fc = nn.Sequential(nn.Dropout(0.4), nn.Linear(512, emotion_config['num_classes']))
emotion_model_file = hf_hub_download(repo_id='py-feat/resmasknet', filename="ResMaskNet_Z_resmasking_dropout1_rot30.pth")
emotion_checkpoint = torch.load(emotion_model_file, map_location=device)["net"]
emotion_detector.load_state_dict(emotion_checkpoint)
emotion_detector.eval()
emotion_detector.to(device)
# Test model
face_image = "path/to/your/test_image.jpg" # Replace with your extracted face image that is [224, 224]
# Classification - [angry, disgust, fear, happy, sad, surprise, neutral]
emotions = emotion_detector.forward(face_image)
emotion_probabilities = torch.softmax(emotions, 1)
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
How it works